Edward Welch
Suffering is God’s surgery that leads to health when we respond by faith.
Edward Welch
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Edward Welch
Suffering is God’s surgery that leads to health when we respond by faith.
Edward Welch
Jerry Bridges, The Pursuit of Holiness par Jerry Bridges, 1996, p. 127.
[We must] pray constantly for His enabling grace to say no to temptation, of choosing to take all practical steps to avoid known areas of temptation and flee from those that surprise us.
Jerry Bridges, The Pursuit of Holiness by Jerry Bridges, 1996, p. 127.
John Owen, Meditation on the Glory of Christ
There is an infinite distance between God and His creatures, and it is an act of sheer grace for Him to take notice of earthly things. Christ, as God, is completely self-sufficient in His own eternal blessedness. How great, then, is the glory of His self-humiliation in taking our nature that He might bring us to God! Such humiliation was not forced on Him; He freely chose to do it.
John Owen, Meditation on the Glory of Christ
John MacArthur, The Glory of Heaven, 1996, page 96.
Scripture promises that heaven will be a realm of perfect bliss. Tears, pain, sorrow, and crying will have no place whatsoever in the New Heaven and New Earth. It is a place where God’s people will dwell together with Him eternally, utterly free from all the effects of sin and evil. God is pictured as personally wiping away the tears from the eyes of the redeemed. Heaven is a realm where death is fully conquered (1 Cor. 15:26). There is no sickness there, no hunger, no trouble, and no tragedy. Just absolute joy and blessings. It is frankly hard for our minds, which have never known anything but this sinful life and its calamities, to imagine.
John MacArthur, The Glory of Heaven, 1996, page 96.
Randy Smith
I love to analyze Jesus, the greatest teacher in action. For Him, it was not just about “dumping” information. He engaged His students with gentle love and masterful skill. Finding out where His audience stood and having them express it for themselves. Allowing them to share their thoughts, feelings, concerns and questions. Talking them through their situation. Taking passive listeners and creating active listeners. Instilling a desire to know truth. Always guiding the conversation to a spiritual emphasis. Using an appropriate and strategic economy of words.
Randy Smith
Jean Calvin, Commentaires sur 1 Jean 2-2.
William Barclay
For the Christian, heaven is where Jesus is. We do not need to speculate on what heaven will be like. It is enough to know that we will be forever with Him. When we love anyone with our whole hearts, life begins when we are with that person; it is only in their company that we are really and truly alive. It is so with Christ. In this world our contact with Him is shadowy, for we can only see through a glass darkly. It is spasmodic, for we are poor creatures and cannot live always on the heights. But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with Jesus, and where nothing will separate us from Him anymore.
William Barclay
Auteur inconnu, The Kneeling Christian, circa 1930, ch. 5.
I believe the vast majority of Christians would say, “Prayer is asking things from God.” But surely prayer is much more than merely “getting God to run our errands for us,” as someone puts it. It is a higher thing than the beggar knocking at the rich man’s door.
Unknown Author,The Kneeling Christian, circa 1930, ch. 5.
Philip Graham Ryke, Lead Us Not Into Temptation de When You Pray, 2000, p. 148.
The weaknesses we see in the people of the Bible are the very weaknesses we ought to recognize in ourselves. Like Eve, who ate the forbidden fruit, we are vulnerable to temptation when we act on our own. Like Abraham, who lied about his wife to save his neck, we are vulnerable to temptation when we are scared. Like David, who slept with Bathsheba while his men were off to war, we are vulnerable to temptation when we are idle. Like Elijah, who wanted God to end his life, we are vulnerable to temptation when we are exhausted. Like Peter, who denied his Lord even after he promised to die for him, we are vulnerable to temptation when we are overconfident. In other words, we are vulnerable to temptation practically all the time.
Philip Graham Ryke, Lead Us Not Into Temptation from When You Pray, 2000, p. 148.
Auteur inconnu
God has ordained the end; prayer is the means.
Unknown Author
Oswald Sanders
Mastering the art of prayer, like any other art, will take time, and the amount of time we allocate to it will be the true measure of our conception of its importance.
Oswald Sanders
Le pécheur en enfer ne devient pas moralement neutre dès sa condamnation à l'enfer. Nous ne devons pas imaginer que le pécheur damné fait preuve de repentance évangélique et aspire à la présence du Christ. Les damnés aspirent en effet à échapper au châtiment, mais ils ne sont pas des "nouvelles créations". En enfer, ils n'aiment pas le Seigneur leur Dieu avec leur cœur, leur esprit, leur âme et leur force. Au contraire, ils sont maintenant livrés à la pleine manifestation de leurs natures sans la grâce, des natures sataniques (Jean 8:44). Ainsi, la condamnation se poursuit pour toujours et à jamais, sans fin en vue ni pour le péché ni pour sa punition.
Russell Moore.
The sinner in hell does not become morally neutral upon his sentence to hell. We must not imagine the damned sinner displaying gospel repentance and longing for the presence of Christ. The damned indeed are longing for an escape from punishment, but they are not “new creations.” They do not, in hell, love the Lord their God with heart, mind, soul, and strength. Instead, they are now handed over to the full display of their natures apart from grace, natures that are satanic (John 8:44). Thus, the condemnation continues forever and ever and ever, with no end in view either for the sin or the punishment thereof.
Russell Moore.
Charles H. Spurgeon
We must not trust our heart at any time; even when it speaks most fair, we must call it liar; and when it pretends to the most good, still we must remember its nature, for it is evil, and that continually.
Charles H. Spurgeon
John Angell James, The Great End of Life, 1825.
Can it be, that the chief object of existence is to sing, and play, and dress and dance? Do not these things, when we reflect upon them, look more like the pursuits of butterflies and grasshoppers, and canary birds – than of rational creatures? Is it not melancholy to see beings with never-dying souls, sinking to the amusements of children; and employing time as if it were given them for nothing but mirth; and using the world as if it were created by God only to be a sort of playground for its inhabitants?
John Angell James, The Great End of Life, 1825.
Henry Ward Beecher
There are a hundred men hacking at the branches of evil to every one who is striking at the roots of evil.
Henry Ward Beecher
George Muller, The Autobiography of George Muller, 1984, p. 35.
The anointing of the Holy Spirit helps me greatly when I preach. I would never attempt to teach the truth of God by my own power.
George Muller, The Autobiography of George Muller, 1984, p. 35.